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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.870#0011
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TO THE READER.
IN presenting the following work to the tribunal of public taste, the Author is not insensible of the
critical situation in which he stands.
Encouraged, however, by the hope of indulgence towards its defects, he ventures to proceed by
stating the principles on which he has acted in the execution of this arduous undertaking.
The professed object of government in purchasing this admirable collection of Grecian sculpture,
being for the improvement and exaltation of the British school of art, it became a matter of the first
importance, that a just and radical knowledge of the peculiar character and style of these matchless
productions should be disseminated, not only amongst artists, but also amongst those members of
society, who, by their rank, wealth and education, are more especially qualified to exercise the
interesting functions of impartial censors and benevolent patrons. With the view therefore of
assisting in the promotion of so desirable an object, the Author of the following essay, after an
uninterrupted scries of three years close contemplation and study of these beautiful relics, and at the
solicitation of several of his friends, has presumed to publish the product of his labours.
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TO THE READER.
IN presenting the following work to the tribunal of public taste, the Author is not insensible of the
critical situation in which he stands.
Encouraged, however, by the hope of indulgence towards its defects, he ventures to proceed by
stating the principles on which he has acted in the execution of this arduous undertaking.
The professed object of government in purchasing this admirable collection of Grecian sculpture,
being for the improvement and exaltation of the British school of art, it became a matter of the first
importance, that a just and radical knowledge of the peculiar character and style of these matchless
productions should be disseminated, not only amongst artists, but also amongst those members of
society, who, by their rank, wealth and education, are more especially qualified to exercise the
interesting functions of impartial censors and benevolent patrons. With the view therefore of
assisting in the promotion of so desirable an object, the Author of the following essay, after an
uninterrupted scries of three years close contemplation and study of these beautiful relics, and at the
solicitation of several of his friends, has presumed to publish the product of his labours.
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